Новости за 21.04.2024

BEIJING - Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China's Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government Sunday to enact emergency response plans to protect more than 127 million people.

ROME, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Italy's capital celebrated the city's 2,777th birthday Sunday, the annual retrospective of the city's long history that in recent years has grown increasingly popular with tourists.

China's fiscal woes are likely to drag on economies across the Caucasus and Central Asia over the next two years, the World Bank is forecasting. 

Hyderabad (Telangana) [Inida], April 21 (ANI): A resident of First Lancer, Hyderabad, lodged a complaint on Sunday against Kompella Madhavi Latha, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, following a controversy involving a video that appears to depict her gesturing as if shooting an arrow towards a mosque. The complainant was identified as Shaik Imran. Imran has filed his compl

Mangalore (Karnataka) [India], April 21 (ANI): Former Karnataka Chief Minister M Veerappa Moily criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling the surgical strikes of 2019 "bogus" and claiming that PM Modi used them to gain political advantage. "The 2024 election is different from 2014 and 2019. In 2019 Modi carried out this surgical strike. One of the former governors of Kashmir Mr

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has praised the recent operation by saying it demonstrated the country's resolve

ISLAMABAD  - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will arrive in neighboring Pakistan on Monday for official meetings with the host nation's leaders amidst Iran-Israel tensions.

Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 21 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government wants to change the Constitution and curtail the rights of people. Addressing a public rally in Rajnandgaon, the Congress General Secretary said that any change in the Constitution would impact everyone and people would not be able to lead a respectable life s

Ajmer (Rajasthan) [India], April 21 (ANI): Amid the Lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate from Rajasthan's Ajmer, Ramchandra Choudhary said that there is a Congress wave in Rajasthan and the BJP will secure only 5 out of 25 seats in the state. Expressing his vision for Ajmer's progress, the candidate emphasized the need for enhancing railway connectivity by linking Merta-Ajmer and Ajmer-Kota to existing railway lines. A

HAVANA, Cuba: Before high level discussions on migration began in Washington this week, Cuba asked the U.S. to ease sanctions and end special treatment of Cubans illegally entering its territory.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: During two U.S. Senate hearings this week held in response to a January mid-air panel blowout on a 737 MAX 9, lawmakers scrutinized Boeing's safety culture and manufacturing quality.

GUANGZHOU, April 21 (Xinhua) -- In 1954, Jack Perry, founder of the London Export Corporation, led a group of 48 British businessmen on a historic trade mission to Beijing.

JAKARTA -- Five people were killed and 15 others were injured in a train-bus accident on Sunday in Indonesia, an official said.

GAZA, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 34,097, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Dhalai (Tripura) [India], April 21 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Sunday said that countries like China and Pakistan who have always created troubles for India are now silent because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong leadership. According to Saha, the defence forces of India were further strengthened after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over the charge of office. "We all know how China invaded In

Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], April 21 (ANI): Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi targeted Western powers in the AUKUS trilateral security partnership and accused them of provoking division and raising nuclear proliferation risks in the South Pacific, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday. AUKUS is a trilateral security partnership designed to create a stronger, more resilient trilateral submarine industrial base, supporting sub

Islamabad [Pakistan], April 21 (ANI): The Margalla Police station in Pakistan's Islamabad registered an FIR after a foreign national was reportedly abducted from the city on Sunday, The Express Tribune reported. According to the report, the FIR was lodged at the request of the foreign embassy which also approached law enforcement seeking the recovery of the abducted citizen. They also named an accused and said that the fo

For years, a simple asterisk affixed to the word Kosovo on official international documents and reports has eased diplomatic life for the fledgling country and former Serbian region.

At least 13 Palestinians were killed in raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian forces said Saturday.

The country has enjoyed a rebound in consumption and an uptick in real wages, analyst Alfred Kammer has said

DUBLIN, Ireland: Ireland saw a country-wide drop in residential property sales of 18 percent in the first quarter of 2024.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Due to the current state of the U.S. market, winter wheat farmers in the Great Plains will be badly affected, and many could lose money despite potentially high crop yields after the end of three years of drought, which reduced yields and forced farmers to abandon farming wheat.

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: This week, Eli Lilly said that after conducting two late-stage trials, its weight-loss drug Zepbound has been proven to reduce sleep apnea episodes, paving the way for its expanded use.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: This week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said China's massive investments in advanced manufacturing of clean energy goods must be mitigated, as it created an unfair playing field that could put American workers and businesses at risk.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: On April 16, a Myanmar government spokesperson said that detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest.